A wet month led to some minor flooding along the Steinhatchee River in southeast Taylor county. A house was also struck by lightning in Panama City Beach.
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A wet month led to some minor flooding along the Steinhatchee River in southeast Taylor county. A house was also struck by lightning in Panama City Beach.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 18, 1:50 PM CST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 350 PM EDT Thu Jul 18 2013 .NEAR TERM [Through Tonight]... The 18 UTC regional surface analysis showed an area of high pressure to our north and a weak, broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave to our south. There were a few showers and thunderstorms across the FL Big Bend, but below-average Precip Water and MLCAPE values were limiting deep moist convection so far this afternoon. The ribbon of dry air aloft that has been over our forecast area for the past few days will begin to shift northward tonight, as a surge of deep tropical moisture associated with the aforementioned low pressure area approaches our forecast area. This may be one of those unusual situations when our rain chances will actually be a little higher overnight than this afternoon, and our PoP ranges from 10% in our northern zones (around Dothan and Albany) to 40% at the FL beaches. Lows will be in the lower to mid 70s. && .SHORT TERM [Friday Through Saturday Night]... A broad mid/upper level low pressure will start the period centered in the extreme northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Through Saturday night, the low will continue to move northwest and shear out over Texas. As it does so, weak vorticity maxima will rotate around the eastern edge of the low and pass over the eastern Gulf and the state of Florida. At the surface, a trough (or possibly a weak closed low) will move southeast to northwest through the eastern/central Gulf, with the Bermuda High filling in behind it on Saturday. A messy combination of the aforementioned features, and associated isentropic forcing should spell out a rainy day across the Tri- State region tomorrow. Specifically, the best isentropic forcing appears to be over Apalachee Bay, north over the Florida Forgotten Coast and Big Bend. Though a widespread coverage of storms is expected along and ahead of the trough axis, poorly sloped theta-e surfaces and marginal instability would suggest that the heavy rain potential will be confined to isolated strong cells only. On average, expect widespread amounts of 1 to 2 inches over the next day or so. With little to no synoptic forcing anticipated on Saturday, but plenty of moisture in place, the local weather will likely be dominated by some form of tempered seabreeze activity, in combination with some left over vorticity enhancements aloft, and possible some impacts from what is left of Saturday's dampening surface trough. Regardless of exactly how the day evolves, a healthy scattering of showers and thunderstorms are to be expected. The environment will not support severe thunderstorm development over through the short term. && .LONG TERM [Sunday through Wednesday]... Deep layer ridging will dominate the first part of the extended range forecast, with typical seabreeze patterns and rain chances through Monday. Thereafter, a trough will nose into the Southeast, nudging the mid/upper layer ridge out over our Gulf waters. Additionally, some form of surface reflection will slip into the Tri-State region and assist in the development of more widespread shower and thunderstorm development through the remainder of the period. && .AVIATION [Beginning 19Z Thursday]... Prevailing VFR conditions are expected for the remainder of today through this evening, outside of any isolated SHRA/TSRA (where the vis and cigs could briefly drop to IFR/MVFR). A brief period of MVFR cigs is possible at KVLD around dawn Friday. Rain will gradually spread north into the region Friday morning, and all terminals are likely to get at least some rain on Friday. && .MARINE... Elevated, but sub headline level winds will persist through Saturday with the passage of an area of low pressure. By Sunday, high pressure will take over and winds and seas will calm, outside of daily seabreeze enhancements. && .FIRE WEATHER... Red flag conditions are not expected for the next several days. && .HYDROLOGY... A couple area river points remain in flood along the Choctawhatchee - most notably, near Bruce which is forecast to remain in moderate flood stage into the weekend. However, all area rivers and streams are seeing decreasing flows and falling river stages. Average rainfall amounts through Saturday should be on the order of 1 to 2 inches. This would not be sufficient to cause significant rises on rivers. However, there is a small chance for localized heavy rainfall on Friday and into the weekend. If that is focused in a particular basin, it could cause a few river points to see some rises this weekend given flows higher than climatological normals in July. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... Tallahassee 90 72 82 74 89 / 20 20 70 40 60 Panama City 88 75 82 79 86 / 20 30 70 40 60 Dothan 92 72 87 73 89 / 20 10 60 30 60 Albany 91 72 88 72 87 / 20 10 50 30 50 Valdosta 90 72 87 72 90 / 20 10 60 40 60 Cross City 90 72 83 77 83 / 30 50 60 50 60 Apalachicola 86 76 81 80 85 / 30 40 70 50 60 && .TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...None. GA...None. AL...None. GM...None. && NEAR TERM...Fournier SHORT TERM...Harrigan LONG TERM...Harrigan AVIATION...Fournier MARINE...Harrigan FIRE WEATHER...Fournier HYDROLOGY...Harrigan/Lamers
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:37 UTC.
1 lightning, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The media reported a house fire started by lightning near the intersection of Hutchison Blvd and Azalea St in Panama City Beach. Monetary damage was estimated.
Minor flooding occurred along the Steinhatchee River near Northeast River Road with water in the yards of residences on the western bank of the Steinhatchee River in Taylor county.
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